Onchain, an open-source blockchain based in Shanghai, will provide technology for Alibaba’s first blockchain supported

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Onchain allows fast re-constructions for public, permissioned
(consortium) or private blockchains and will eventually enable
interoperability among these modes. Its consortium chain product, the
Law Chain, will provide technology for Ali Cloud, Alibaba’s computing
branch.

Ali Cloud has integrated Onchain’s Antshares
blockchain technology to provide an enterprise-grade email repository.
Onchain provides the bottom-layer framework for Ali Cloud, including its
open-source blockchain capabilities, to enable any company to customize
its own enterprise-level blockchain.

Ali Cloud, as the tech core of Alibaba group, has come to recognize
our technical competence as well as the potential of the blockchain
technology as a whole. We expect a lot of companies to follow suit,” he
said.

Ali Cloud’s blockchain-based email evidence repository will allow
users to synchronize and store critical data (along with hash values) of
critical emails to third parties. Users will be able to download emails
and send them to judicial departments. Judicial departments can then
conduct reviews based on the data to produce reports as evidence in a
courtroom.

Email, one of the most common communication tools for corporate
business, is used as evidence in courtrooms and recognized by
judiciaries. It has been difficult to extract original email files as
digital evidence in court due to the resources, time, inter-departmental
cooperation and technology required.
“As long as one side uses the service, the data will be stored
securely, and the content will not be uploaded,” Da Hongfei said. “It’s
the encrypted hash that got uploaded to Onchain and stored.”

Alibaba Cloud Expands

“Alibaba’s cloud computing platform is operating large data centers
in HK (Hong Kong), Singapore, Silicon Valley, Russia, Japan and a dozen
cities in China,” Da Hongfei said. “It provides cloud computing services
to governments, academic institutions and private sector companies.
Most Internet companies in China are powered by Ali Cloud.”
Ali Cloud has been used for computing services, domains, emails,
network security and big data analysis. “It’s the major no. 1 service
provider and infrastructure in major areas in China,” Da Hongfei said.
“It’s like a founding pillar of China’s Internet; from government
departments, Giant SOEs (state operated enterprises) like Sinopec, to
most of the modern day Internet startups,” he said. “It involves the
entire life cycle of an Internet company, from domain to server to
security to complicated businesses like data analytics and large-volume
computing. Again, the cooperation is with its email department, also an
industry leader in China in the sector.”
“The Law Chain, using Antshares-derived technologies, is now
operating stably and swiftly expanding into multiple areas,” Da Hongfei
said. “We now have experts from China’s top law schools from professors,
deans to JDs, you name it. And we will soon gain recognition from
China’s judicial authentication centers.”
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New Era For Evidence Storage

The combination of digital evidence storage and blockchain technology
will change the landscape of evidence storage and bring more security
and efficiency, Da Hongfei said.
He noted blockchain technology is extending to new uses due to its functionality, security, efficiency and low cost.
Antshares recently raised over $4.5 million a crowdsale, enabling
it to complete the first ever open-source blockchain project in China, CCN reported.
The Onchain team, led by Da Hongfei, includes developers formerly
with BTCC, Huobi and financial experts from Morgan Stanley and State
Street.
Onchain received the Award for Excellence in Innovation in Blockchain
Technology from Frost & Sullivan. Onchain was also named a KPMG
China Leading Fintech 50 selection.Images from Onchain and Shutterstock.